"In order to add jollity to the proceedings, said the dean, each graduand
would find beneath his seat a little tub of bubbles, complete with
mortar board cap."
Mike Amos; Proud Return of the Pigeon Boy; Northern Echo (Darlington, UK);
Jul 14, 2005.

X-Bonus

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into
you. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)